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floating-point operation en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of floating point operation.
The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8.
1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
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